Frank Casal
- Role
- Plant Manager at Novolex
- Location
- Rutherford, NJ, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Frank Casal
A team building, results-oriented executive with a BSME, an MBA, 6 Sigma Green Belt…
Experience
Plant Manager
Sep 2021 — Present · Elizabeth, NJ, US
Plant Manager – Responsible for Operations in a multi-site unionized $400+ MM paper converting facility. Responsible for the 250+ employee SQF certified, food service grade paper bag manufacturer, including HR, Scheduling, Purchasing, Production, Maintenance, Engineering, Warehouse, Quality, EH & S and SQF Compliance.\\\\n\\\\n• Primary Change Agent for creating a culture of continuous improvement, accountability and employee engagement. Created a team based, continuous improvement focused plant, and instituted a vision focused on safety and operational improvements that resulted in immediate upgrades in the safety awareness, organization, appearance, employee morale and engagement, operational efficiencies and OSHA compliance.\\\\n• Responsible for employee assessment, development, management and directing the activities at all levels of the plant. Trained all supervisors in Supervisory, Human Performance and Safelead (Safety Awareness and Interaction) principles. This significantly improved interaction with direct employees which resulted in greater safety awareness, increased employee engagement and productivity.\\\\n• Establishment of a Root Cause & Corrective Action (RCCA) process reduced raw material scrap rate by 26%.\\\\n• Through process development and personal involvement, guidance and development of the Scheduling, Production and Warehouse teams, increased inventory accuracy from 92% to 99.75 % net and from 52% to 89% absolute while reducing raw material inventory by 37% and FG by 10%, and improving OTIF by 14%, to 96%.\\\\n• Instituted an environment of being inspection ready all the time. Achieved a 95% rating in 2023 Safe Quality Foods (SQF) certification audit.\\\\n• Through personal interaction and leadership of the process engineering, maintenance and production teams increased OEE by 9% in under 1 year.\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n
Education
University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business
MBA
University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business
Master of Business Administration - MBA
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Bachelor's degree
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science
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